Intermittent Fasting And Exercise: Is It Safe?

  Intermittent Fasting & Exercise: Is It Safe? Intermittent fasting (IF) and the ketogenic diet can go hand-in-hand. Both diets help your body by limiting glucose, although they do so in different ways. Keto limits glucose by adhering to high-fat and low-carb meals, while IF reduces glucose through systematic fasting. If you’re on keto and IF, is it safe to continue fasting after a workout? In this article, we’ll cover the basics of IF and how to safely continue fasting after a workout. Intermittent Fasting 101 Intermittent fasting is referred to as simply IF, but you might come across the term written as intermittent energy restriction or even time-restricted eating. Regardless of what you call it, IF refers to a regular, timed cycle of eating and then fasting. There are several different types of IF, and they are all categorized by fasting windows. 16/8: A fasting cycle in which your fasting window is 16 hours, and your window for eating is 8 hours. This is the most popular cycle and the easiest to maintain, […]…